Week 3 - Diodes

Allan Josué González Villalobos

May 2020

1 General Solution
Let’s start by setting the Poisson’s equation using the giving density:

d2 φ q · ns k−q·φ
2
= · e B ·T
dx s

To solve the equation, we must start by multiplying both sides with the first
derivative of φ, since it must be different from 0. Then, we get that:

d d2 q · ns k−q·φ dφ
· 2 · (φ) = · e B ·T ·
dx dx s dx

This can be written as:

−q·φ
2
d( 21 · dφ
dx )
d( q·n
s · e
s kB ·T
)
=
dx dx

Integrating we get that:

1 −ns · kB · T −q·φ ns · kB · T
· (φ0 )2 = · e kB ·T + · C0
2 s s

Here we obtain the electric field expression as a function of φ:

r
2 · ns · kB · T −q·φ
E(x) = · (C0 − e kB ·T )
s

1
 To find the potential, we must integrate implicitly, we then obtain:

q r
2 · kB · T 2
q·φ q·φ 2 · kB · T
√ · ln( C0 · e B − 1 + C0 · e B ) =
k ·T 2·k ·T
· (x + C1 )
q · C0 s

Simplifying:

s
2 · kB · T 1 q 2 · C 0 · ns
φ(x) = · ln( · cosh ( · (x + C1 )))
q C0 2 · kB · T s

2 Finding the arbitrary constants

For boundary conditions, we set φ(0) = 0 and E(0) = 0.

Starting with the expression of the Electric field:

r
2 · ns · kB · T
E(0) = · (C0 − 1)
s

So that C0 = 1.

Then we go into the expression of the potential:

s
2 · kB · T q 2 · ns
0= · ln(cosh ( · C1 ))
q 2 · kB · T s

We get then that:

s
q 2 · ns
cosh ( · C1 ) = 0
2 · kB · T s

2
Which is only 0 when C1 = 0

So, the final expressions for the electric field and the potential are:

r
2 · ns · kB · T −q·φ(x)
E(x) = · (1 − e kB ·T )
s

s
2 · kB · T q 2 · ns
φ(x) = · ln(cosh ( · x))
q 2 · kB · T s